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3.0.0: Renaming & Combine! Did someone ask for a complete rewrite? No? Well We did it anyway c: Replaced bespoke rectangle tools with the RectangleTools package Kept @sidevesh's fixes but Git might not be able to keep track of that
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This better describes its purpose. It's not an action that the dev takes, nor that the toast will perform; it's a call to the user to take an action
Might wanna find a way to adapt accessibility preferences to improve this
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Gotta get around to making this package eventually
Had Claude make these. Skimmed em; seem fine enough for a start. File an issue if you find problems!
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Version 3 is a full rework of the whole concept of this package. Previously, this package only mimicked the macOS native "bezel notification". Starting in version 3, it continues offering that feature, and introduces in-window toasts for cross-platform SwiftUI applications!
This resolves #3, #6, #11, #12, #13, #14, and #15.
Reworking the whole thing!
First off: We're renaming the package to Howl. (BH)BezelNotification (NotificationBezel?) was descriptive of the one thing this package was created to do. Now that it does more, it gets a proper brand name, which also pays homage to the late great Growl.
We also decided to start supporting iOS. Since iOS can't have anything appear outside the app's window, they have to be in-window, so we added toasts to the library! We implemented those toasts as SwiftUI-native, so reworking the whole package made a lot of sense.
One could describe the system bezel notification as a kind of toast: little notifications that briefly appear and automatically dismiss themselves. So that is also available with the same toast API, as well as the same legacy API as version 2.
iOS support
Howl 3.0 finally supports iOS! Any toast can appear atop any view on any platform, iOS included. Obviously, the system-wide bezel notification isn't available in iOS because iOS doesn't allow apps to draw on top of other apps.
We plan to also support watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS in the future.